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THE FESTIVAL BEAT MAKER SINCE 1995! SHARING MOTION AND EMOTION
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Weekly newsletter N° 948
Featuring news from: Sundance, Berlin, Venice, IFP GOTHAM Awards, Oscars, Rotterdam, Cesar, Bahamas Fest, Göteborg, IFFI GOA, and many more great events which could become your next festival destination.
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> MARKETS IN FOCUS
Berlinale News on European Film Market, Berlinale Co-Production Market, Berlinale Talents and World Cinema Fund
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Berlinale 2021 twofold: Online Industry Offer in March, Public Event in June
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> FOCUS ON INDIA: THE GOA CHRONICLES by Siraj Syed
By Siraj Syed, our Indian corrrespondent. CLICK ANY OF THE TITLES FOR FULL REPORT
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Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro to get Lifetime Achievement award
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OTT to serve highlights and varied fare
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Much-awaited list of World Panorama films is out
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Khisa is a tale about loss of innocence and coming-of-age
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The kaleidoscope dozen
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South Indian component of the Indian Panorama
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Treat of choice Marathi films, features and shorts
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Line up of movies for international competition
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Pablo Cesar to Chair International Jury
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Minister Javadekar announces the selection of films in the Indian Panorama
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Opening, closing and mid-fest films announced
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Eagerly-awaited cinema fest coming-up soon, in testing times
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> PEOPLE ON OUR RADAR
Fourth annual "Indie Entertainment Showcase 2021" in Sundance
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Director Bong Joon Ho will preside the International Jury of the Venezia 78 Competition
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Venice Film Festival_Biennale College Cinema 2020-21_The Four Final Projects
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Catherine Trautmann re-elected as President of the Eurimages Fund
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Brian Neil Hoff, Palm Springs Animation Festival Founder and Artistic Director, will leave PSIAF at the end of January
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Sundance Institute reveals the 15 2021 Screenwriters Lab Fellows
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Albrecht Schuch is the German Shooting Star 2021
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European Film Promotion (EFP) announces the ten EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS of 2021
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Visions du Réel pays tribute to the French author, filmmaker and screenwriter Emmanuel Carrère
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Ken Burns to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award from Professional Photographers of America
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Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize jury announced
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> FILMS IN FOCUS ...
French Films on the international marketplace and at festivals in 2020
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Voltage picked "THE KILLING OF KENNETH CHAMBERLAIN"
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Only Human selected to have World Premiere at IFFI GOA
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Award Season’s first salvo is Gary Oldman’s Oscar-worthy MANK
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2021 Sundance Film Festival Announces Additional Films
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It's today and live! Don't miss UniFrance's industry day : Beyond Borders 2021
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Overview of the US business for the week of January 11th
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IFP transitions to Gotham
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> FESTIVALS IN FOCUS
Just announced: Sundance 2021 talks and events
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First films of the Berlin Critics’ Week 2021
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Mads Mikkelsen and more at IFFR 2021 online in February
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COVID Fantasporto updates and consequences
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Announcing 2021 Mirror Mountain Film Festival festival dates
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First glimpse of the Göteborg Fest TV Drama Vision online programme
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Jaipur Festival JIFF 2021 is starting online this Friday, Jan 15
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Napa Valley Film Festival Announces 2021 Call for Entries
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Here's the programme for Göteborg Film Festival 2021
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Winter is here and with it the Competition Programme of 2021 Kustendorf
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Fantasporto (Oporto International Film Festival) will meet it s audience at Rivoli Theatre
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FANTASPORTO 2021 from February 26th till March 6th INSPIRING WORLD CINEMA RETURNS TO PORTO Considering the circumstances imposed by the present pandemic, FANTASPORTO/ 41st Porto International Film Festival has made the decision to maintain the 2021 festival edition in person, with a live audience. Cinema is to be seen preferentially inside theatres, in a big screen. Fantasporto’2021 continues its mission to bring audiences and film creatives together, to celebrate cinema i...
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> AWARDS WATCH
Palm Springs International Film Awards Presents Carey Mulligan With The International Star Award
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The Academy to honor Tyler Perry
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2020 Maui Film Festival Audience Awards Revealed!
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Bahamas International Film Festival Winners of 2021
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Gotham Awards 2020 winners announced in hybrid ceremony
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> PARTNERS FESTIVAL AND MARKET NEWS
Julien Dubuque International Film Festival April 18 – 25, 2021
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January 15, regular Deadline
We are now accepting submissions for the 2021 Julien Dubuque Film Festival and awarding over $25,000! You can submit your film via filmfreeway, or contact us for more information.
Known for it's quaint location, friendly staff/volunteers, inquisitive audience, consistent communication, multiple screening opportunities, workshops, panels and other amazing networking opportunities and parties; it's no wonder JDIFF was voted one of the coolest film festivals and one of the top 50 worth the submission fee by MovieMaker Magazine multiple times. JDIFF also ranks as one of the top 100 reviewed festivals by FilmFreeway. JDIFF is ALL about the independent filmmaker!
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New York City Independent Film Festival (NYCIndieFF)
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January 15, 2021 Late Deadline
The New York City Independent Film Festival (a.k.a. NYC Independent Film Festival, NYCIndieFF) is an annual film festival held in New York City. It was founded in 2009 by Dennis Cieri and Bonnie Rush. The festival has screened over 1,800 movies from 81 different countries since it began in 2010.
The Festival is focused on low budget and emerging, yet overlooked filmmakers, bringing their talent to culturally enrich the NYC community. The Festival aims to create the largest gathering of true indie filmmakers.
NYCIndieFF honors the Best in Category which includes Best Narrative Feature, Best Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Best Short Narrative, Best Super Short, as well as Best Director and Best Screenplay.
With a new section: the Covid-19 Diaries: tell us your story of hope and survival during the Corona lockdown. Short under 10 minutes
NYCIndieFF provides a showcase for the best in independent cinema, including short films, feature films, music videos, and animated works. With panels, parties and a week-long gathering of fellow indie filmmakers NYCIndieFF is the place to be May 16 - May 23, 2021.
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54th WorldFest Houston April 16-25, 2021
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Late entry January 15, 2021
WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival offers international competition in Ten Major Competition Categories! Features, Shorts, Docs/Business Films, Student, Experimental, Screenplays, New Media, TV Production, TV Commercials, & Music Videos! More than 200 sub-categories for fair competition. Only at WorldFest-Houston are you selected as a Remi Award Winner on the basis of your numerical score from the juries, which greatly increases your chance to win a Remi, unlike other festivals that only give out one Gold, one Silver and one Bronze! Only 10%-15% of entries actually win the coveted Remi Award!
You are welcome to enter Online via our online entry platform - www.worldfest.org, or via FilmFreeway.com - we now accept entries via Vimeo & YouTube, in addition to DVD/BR Entries, & USB/Jump Drives. Screenplay entries must be bound. We will confirm when we receive your entry and we provide personal Jury Results, and festival details when you are selected for screening at the 53rd WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival!
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> "THE BEST FOR FESTS :
ONES TO WATCH FOR FESTIVAL CONSIDERATION
Only Human HOMO Directed by Igor Ivanov
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Homo Adorans, Homo Amans , Homo Economicus, Homo Faber, Homo Ludens,Homo Ridens : which one are you which one are they really?
ONLY HUMAN – Homo… stages six profiles in six sequencess cleverly interwoven. One dramatic story in 6 episodes featuring desperate characters in their quest for survival and love, or redemption. The jobless graduate becomes a grave-digger, the grieving widow a nun, the priests gamble and gangsters rule the courts. Only the lonely child may find some affection when hope springs eternal.
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Safeguard: An Electoral College Story Documentary by Matthew Taylor
USA September 2020 77minutes
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How do United States' presidential elections really work? And what would happen if we changed the rules? In Safeguard: An Electoral College Story, award-winning filmmaker M.A. Taylor answers those questions.
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IRIS by Diana Rodriguez
USA - Fantastic drama thriller: 104 minutes - first feature film
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Alice Kremelberg (Orange Is The New Black) stars as the eponymous Iris, and gives an outstanding lead performance as this tortured soul dreadfully awaiting the death of her Aunt Adelaide, played by Mary Looram (Like Father, Braid). As Aunt Adelaide slowly withers away in hospice, Iris continues her day to day routines of working in an antique shop, and scrolling online for connections through an online dating app. However, Iris has an ulterior motive behind her digital search for suitors, and it’s not love. Iris has a hunger, and she needs to feed. On every date she goes on, she sizes her match up and determines their strength of character on a criteria of what she considers basic human decency. And if any of her dates fail to meet her standards, then that’s the end of them. They’re dinner. That’s just how Iris operates.
But complications arise when Iris meets Tom, played by Grant MacDermott (Hustlers, Mr. Robot), at a support group meeting for people dealing with the lingering effects of grief. Tom is a good hearted man coping with crippling trauma. As their chaste relationship develops, Iris is confounded by a debilitating emotional dilemma. She yearns for the love she once lost, but recognizes the potential in having a strong bond with Tom. Unfortunately, her primal nature exposes itself in the heat of lust, causing her deep seated vampirism to emerge and overtake her instincts. So she can never truly express her true feelings to Tom without it resulting in his death. What’s a timeless girl to do in the big city?
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ANGIE: LOST GIRLS by Julia Verdin
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USA, 107 minutes, June 2020
One girl’s nightmare. A nationwide reality.
After escaping from a sex trafficking ring, one teenage girl struggles to reconnect with herself and her family after her ordeal. Ultimately, in order to find herself and rescue her helpless friends, she must confront her own fears and help lead the police to her traffickers - no matter the cost.
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FINDING MANNY by Kacey Cox
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Canada, 56 minutes documentary, june 2020
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BLUE MOTEL Award winning script by Ted Campbell
Feature film in production by Doval Bacall Films
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Grand Winner Your Script Produced season 1 Platinum Remi Award WorldFest Houston
When his bank robber father injured in a recent heist seeks refuge at the desolate motel where he works, a motel clerk is forced to confront the truth behind a botched heist from his past.
Originally from Boston, Mass, Ted Campbell is a screenwriter and director who specializes in thoughtful, character driven thrillers. Ted will direct his heist thriller "Underground" with producer Ellen Wander of Film Bridge International. His contained, crime thriller “Blue Motel” won the Grand Prize in Your Script Produced screenplay competition. Ted will direct “Blue Motel” with Doval Bacall Films producing. Ted is a member of ISA’s Development Program. And was named to ISA’s Top 25 Screenwriters To Watch list.
Ted finds inspiration in the works of the great noir writers Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald as well as his screenwriting idols Scott Frank, Shane Black, Tony Gilroy and Richard Wenk.
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SAVING NORTH - A RUSSIAN AMERICAN ODYSSEY by J Mitchell Johnson
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Russia USA Feature documentary April 2020 Director's cut: 79 minutes
What happened, what can happen to the centuries old amazing wooden churches in north of Russia. Photographer Richard Davies trips to Russia and USA tell stories on human soul, hope and russian american…cooperation in restoring beauty.
Saving North is the story of a struggle for human and cultural survival in the mysterious and insular world of the Russian North. An outsider from England, photographer Richard Davies, enters this mysterious and vast region of the world with the hope of documenting both the glory and the tragic demise of its rapidly disappearing Wooden Churches. As Davies meets and becomes friends with the some of his Russian photo subjects, he finds himself getting emotionally involved with their struggle. He decides to put down his camera and get involved with church restoration.
Early on in our story Davies befriends the famed Russian architect Alexander Popov who is deeply involved in working to preserve and share with the world the beauty and value of these ancient structures. Popov has uniquely discovered and reinvigorated both the tools and processes that restore life back to the North. But it’s an uphill battle against strong and powerful forces.
Together, Davies and Popov uncover the circumstances that led to the demise of the churches, and then join a small but growing group of passionate Russian citizens and outsiders from all walks of life who join the cause of Saving North.
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SEKURITAS written and directed by Carmen Stadler
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Romantic dark comedy 117 minutes 2019 Switzerland
Starring Kathrin Veith, Duraid Abbas Ghaieb, Jeanne Devos, Daniel Kasztura, Vilmar Bieri, This Maag
First feature film by Swiss director Carmen Stadler, produced by Claudia Wick for Abrakadabra Films AG
An office complex wishes for a love story before demolition. It chooses the lonely misfits for this story; those who go through security rounds at night, scrub toilets, experiment with recipes or rehearse their final speech. A poetic and twisted kaleidoscope that centers around desire, security and melodious noises which move through the entire fabric of the building.
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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible written and directed by Matthew Taylor
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USA 2019 Documentary 89 minutes
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THE MYSTERY OF A BURYAT LAMA, directed by Elena Demidova
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THE CREEPY LINE a film by M.A.Taylor 2018
"A film that Google does not want you to see - filmfestivals.com Best for Fest"
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An eye-opening documentary, The Creepy Line reveals the stunning degree to which society is manipulated by Google and Facebook and blows the lid off the remarkably subtle – hence powerful – manner in which they do it.
The Creepy Line is a title culled from the words of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, when during a 2010 interview he explained Google’s code of conduct: “The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”
However, as Dr. Robert Epstein explains in the film, “Google crosses the creepy line every day”.
Offering first-hand accounts, scientific experiments and detailed analysis, The Creepy Line examines what is at risk when these two tech titans have free reign to utilize the public’s most private and personal data to manipulate society.
There is no question that the “creepy line” is getting ever-creepier, and that the tech giants have crossed it.
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Sharkwater: Extinction by Rob Stewart Documentary
Canada 2018
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Rob Stewart “Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth. And that, above all else, is worth fighting for” Watch Rob Stewart doing what he loved most of all, swimming with sharks, in exclusive footage from his third film, Sharkwater: Extinction.
Sharkwater: Extinction is a follow up to his first two award-winning films, Sharkwater and Revolution. Sharkwater exposed the devastating issue of shark finning, while Revolution brought the destructive effects of Ocean Acidification to light.
Rob taught the world to not fear sharks, through his iconic images of hugging these majestic creatures and free diving with them.
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Revolution by Rob Stewart
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over 40 festival wins so far
Eco Documentary feature film by Rob Stewart April 2015, 82 minutes (Sharkwater)
Revolution is a film about changing the world. The true-life adventure of Rob Stewart, this follow-up to his acclaimed SHARKWATER (36 festival wins) documentary continues his remarkable journey; one that will take him through 15 countries over four years, and where he'll discover that it's not only sharks that are in grave danger -- it's humanity itself.
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> NEWS IN FRENCH
Des partenariats forts avec les plus grands festivals et marchés
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Ré-élection de Mme Catherine Trautmann à la présidence du Fonds Eurimages
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L'incroyable développement de 3iS, l'Institut International de l'Image et du Son
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La 5e édition d’Atelier Grand Nord XR aura lieu en ligne
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Cinq ans de combat d'AAFA-Tunnel de la Comédienne de 50 ans !
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Photographe, réalisateur et écologiste, Yann Arthus-Bertrand publie un nouveau livre sur la Convention Citoyenne pour le Climat
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La 12e édition de l’Industry Village des Arcs Film Festival passe presque 100% online et dévoile sa sélection Work in Progress !
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Promoting Movies that Matter / des films qui font grandir...
With contributions from Abbé Jean-Luc Maroy, Alex Deleon, Bruno Chatelin
Les raisins de la colère (The Grapes of Wrath) de John Ford (USA, 1940)
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La Source (Jungfrukällan) d’Ingmar Bergman (Suède, 1960)
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En VIDEO Bruno Chatelin et le lancement de Boyz'n The Hood à Cannes
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